A Gnostic Swansong...poet montague in Irish Times on Harold Bloom

[jochen stremmel]

And it is not even America ...

There is a wonderful dialog in Portis’ Dog of the South between Ray
and a man from Canada in the course of which the latter says: "You
guys just stole that name" (I'm quoting from memory, 600 miles between
me and the book).

2011/8/10 Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>:
> This angry note, like an Old Testament prophet or Jesus chastising
> Jerusalem, resounds in The Anatomy of Influence. He thunders,
> “Twenty-first-century America is in a state of decline . . . We have
> approached bankruptcy, fought wars we cannot pay for, and defrauded our
> urban and rural poor. Our troops include felons, and mercenaries of many
> nations are among our ‘contractors’ . . . We have no Emerson or Whitman
> among us”.